This piece features a famous long tracking shot from the film Frenzy. In this shot, the camera follows a serial killer and his next victim up a staircase to the killer's apartment, and then backs down the staircase and out into the street. In the piece, the viewer stands before a projection of the film excerpt and a proximity sensor. The excerpt is divided into segments of equal length. The segments are played in order, but the frames within each segment are played backwards. The length of the segments depends on the distance of the viewer to the piece. When the viewer is farthest away, the segment length is the entire length of the excerpt, so it plays continuously backwards. As the viewer gets closer, the segments get shorter, creating a violent, lunging effect. When the viewer is closest, the segment length is one frame, so the excerpt plays continuously ...
Full Description
This piece features a famous long tracking shot from the film Frenzy. In this shot, the camera follows a serial killer and his next victim up a staircase to the killer's apartment, and then backs down the staircase and out into the street. In the piece, the viewer stands before a projection of the film excerpt and a proximity sensor. The excerpt is divided into segments of equal length. The segments are played in order, but the frames within each segment are played backwards. The length of the segments depends on the distance of the viewer to the piece. When the viewer is farthest away, the segment length is the entire length of the excerpt, so it plays continuously backwards. As the viewer gets closer, the segments get shorter, creating a violent, lunging effect. When the viewer is closest, the segment length is one frame, so the excerpt plays continuously forwards. A sense of temporal and spatial ambiguity is created when the backwards motion of the camera is viewed in reverse.
Work metadata
- Year Created: 2008
- Submitted to ArtBase: Wednesday Nov 19th, 2008
- Original Url: http://basmajian.net/work/uncle_bob/
- Permalink: http://basmajian.net/work/uncle_bob/
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Work Credits:
- Chris Basmajian, creator
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